TBH, I don’t think so.

The Thorn sorcerers appear to have been false prophet(based on their blindfolds of thorns) who were “encouraged” by the Fire Monks (Thorned Whip) to find new faith in the Blood Star.

If we consider the fact that the Order of Fire Monks were installed by Marika’s regime, then that must mean that the Blood Star has a benefit to her, after Messmer’s did not.

Not while right-wingers continue to think that Democrats will flock to him because of it.

Gonna pop a Madman’s Knowledge and throw out a third option: both!

We already know that Marigon is based off the alchemical rebus, the ultimate fusion of all opposing concepts, but that they haven’t truly become one yet. Rather than a single perfect being, they were just two individuals sharing a body. That arrangement worked for the longest time because they shared complimentary goals (the betterment of the Age of the Erdtree/the Golden Order), but as soon as they started to fight over shattering the Elden Ring, everything went to shit.

The person we see here might be that perfect union, who became cracked because of what they did in the Lands of Shadow, which is why they aren’t that way in the main game.

(To that end, I just realized that this figure does not have the cracks in their arm which Marika has in the main game opening. I’ll take that as evidence my crackpot theory.)

“A plague marine is never late, nor is he ever early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”

  1. Lords of Silence

  2. No matter how many mistakes you make while painting, no one will ever notice.

  3. Poxwalkers feel awesome to use.

  4. Blight Haulers and Bloat Drones are some of the coolest models in the game.

  5. DG terminators eating all your opponents shots and asking for seconds always feels great.

“We will ride forever! Sickly and green!”

If we don’t get Malva in the next patch, she probably won’t get added to the ticket pool till next year.

Doesn’t get sus? Bruh, it’s already sus!

The Age of Maleknights has begun

I mean… Fromsoft is clearly setting up some sort of historical cycle involving Marika and Miquella. Marika used to associate herself with the symbol of unalloyed gold (as seen on Messmer’s cape) and Miquella is specifically in the Lands of Shadow to retread Marika’s path.

I think a roadmap is very reasonable, since ToD was supposed to be out last year.

Just because the trailer revealed next to nothing, doesn’t mean that it means nothing. Watch the main game’s announcement/story trailer and you won’t have a clue what it’s about. Watch it again after finishing the game, and Miyazaki might as well have done a straight reading.

Miyazaki confirmed before this trailer that Trina is gonna show up as her own character in the dlc.

It seems they pulled the same trick they did with the main game story trailer where they showed a bunch of stuff which makes zero-sense to us now but, once we finish the dlc, will be revealed as explicitly spoiling the ending.

Ok, so it seems implied that St. Trina is actually Miquella’s Demi-god fate reincarnated into physical form.

Edit: Another thought. That bloody thing from the start is 1000% the Formless Mother. She’s already connected to Miquella through Mohg, and I’ve played too much Scorn to not see that as a vagina.

15 minutes to show, so I’ll just put rough predictions:

  • Radagon genuinely wanted to make peace, live with Renalla, and pursue a diplomatic victory.

  • Messmer didn’t try to break ties with Marika, she just abandoned him when she realized fire can’t co-exist with the Erdtree.

  • Malenia would have gotten the same treatment as Messmer after Miquella decides that Rot can’t co-exist with his Age of Haligtree.

  • St. Trina’s gonna be about ending people’s suffering by trapping them in dreams, similar to how the Frenzied Flame wants to end suffering by killing everyone.

Almost all the zombies are dead now, the natural order is returning.

Destined Death is sealed away, which means that everyone else is stuck with Undestined Death. Or in simpler terms, not everyone born is guaranteed to die some day. Some do, which is why we find dead bodies everywhere, but many more don’t. That latter group typically makes up the mob enemies we find throughout the Lands Between.

We are a tarnished, a descendant of one of the super strong warriors that were banished from the Lands after Godfrey lost his Grace. Like every other Tarnished we died one day, like many other Tarnished we were not destined to stay dead, and like few other Tarnished, we had the will to stay sane no matter how long or difficult the path ahead was. It’s that final quality that earned us the guidance of Grace, and what separates us from all the npc enemies.

God, what I would give to get an official Marius LL + campaign added to the game. Hopefully as FLC like Repanse.